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<h1 class="topictitle1">Preparations for Backup</h1>
<div><p>Before the backup, prepare information such as certificates, accounts, and IP addresses by performing operations described in <a href="#EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920">Table 1</a>.</p>

<div class="tablenoborder"><a name="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920"></a><a name="en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920"></a><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption><b>Table 1 </b>Preparations for backup</caption><colgroup><col style="width:17.34%"><col style="width:12.75%"><col style="width:53.56999999999999%"><col style="width:16.34%"></colgroup><thead align="left"><tr><th align="left" class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" id="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1"><p>Item</p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Cinder module certificate</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="12.75%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>No</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="53.56999999999999%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>You need to obtain the certificate only when the certificate needs to be verified during cluster registration. For details, see <a href="en-us_topic_0000002200097901.html">Step1: (Optional) Obtaining the Certificate</a>.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="7" valign="top" width="16.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.4 "><p><a href="en-us_topic_0000002200097917.html">Step 2: Registering Huawei Cloud Stack</a></p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Storage resource certificate</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Password of operation administrator <strong>bss_admin</strong> for logging in to ManageOne Operation Portal</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>No</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Contact the Huawei Cloud Stack operation administrator to obtain the password.</p>
<div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__note8453152174918"><span class="notetitle"> NOTE: </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__p1245362114497">If you need to use a custom user to connect Huawei Cloud Stack to the <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__text12410937181815">OceanProtect</span> with the minimum permission, create a custom user by referring to "Security Management" in the <em id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__i17296727103619">Product Documentation</em> of the corresponding Huawei Cloud Stack version. The procedure is as follows:</p>
<ol id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__ol16337037165217"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li7337637135219"><a name="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li7337637135219"></a><a name="li7337637135219"></a>Create a policy by referring to "Managing Policies". Select <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__uicontrol158749173530"><b>SC</b></span> for <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b31061369544">Service</strong> and the <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__uicontrol4509013195418"><b>vdc_readonly</b></span> role for <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b16736181518542">Permissions</strong>. This role has the permission to query information about users and resource spaces as well as self-service OM data in the tenant.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li66202308549"><a name="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li66202308549"></a><a name="li66202308549"></a>Create an integrated account by referring to "Managing Integrated Accounts".</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li1619114155813">Create a user group by referring to "Managing User Groups". Add the policy created in <a href="#EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li7337637135219">1</a> and the integrated account in <a href="#EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li66202308549">2</a> to the user group. After the configuration is complete, you can use this user group to connect Huawei Cloud Stack to the <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__text12543171420173">OceanProtect</span>.</li></ol>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Username and password of a storage device administrator</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Contact the Huawei Cloud Stack operation administrator to obtain the username and password.</p>
<p>You can also create a storage device user whose role is <strong>administrator</strong> and login mode is <strong>RESTful</strong>.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Floating IP address of Huawei Cloud Stack API Gateway</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>On the <strong>Tool_generated_IP_Params</strong> sheet of parameter information summary file <em>xxx</em><strong>_export_all_v2_EN.xlsx</strong> exported from HCC Turnkey during Huawei Cloud Stack software installation, search for <strong>AGW-LB-Float-IP</strong> to obtain the corresponding IP address.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Access domain name of Huawei Cloud Stack</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>On the <strong>Basic_Parameters</strong> sheet of parameter information summary file <em>xxx</em><strong>_export_all_v2_EN.xlsx</strong> exported from HCC Turnkey during Huawei Cloud Stack software installation, search for <strong>external_global_domain_name</strong> to obtain the corresponding parameter value.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Management IP address of the service storage</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__ul179773157314"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li1797751513310">To obtain the management IP address of Huawei SAN storage: On the <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b20896173419121">Basic_Parameters</strong> sheet of parameter information summary file <em id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__i689603491216">xxx</em><strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b10897133471211">_export_all_v2_EN.xlsx</strong> exported from HCC Turnkey during Huawei Cloud Stack software installation, search for <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b2897163418127">Service storage REST URL</strong> to obtain the IP address in the corresponding parameter information.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__li1951120142324">To obtain the management IP address of Huawei scale-out block storage: On the <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b189781858181211">Portal</strong> sheet of parameter information summary file <em id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__i109781258131211">xxx</em><strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b9978115841218">_export_all_v2_EN.xlsx</strong> exported from HCC Turnkey during Huawei Cloud Stack software installation, search for <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__b1797818585129">Huawei Distributed Block Storage Business</strong> to obtain the IP address in the corresponding parameter information.<div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__note871485915219"><span class="notetitle"> NOTE: </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002200012257__p10714859182111">If the storage information of the VM to be backed up is not in the summary file, contact the Huawei Cloud Stack environment administrator to obtain the information and add it to the Huawei Cloud Stack registration information.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Username and password of the VDC to which the to-be-protected project, resource set, or EVS disk belongs</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="12.75%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="53.56999999999999%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Obtain the username and password from the VDC administrator.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="16.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.4 "><p><a href="en-us_topic_0000002200012329.html">Step 3: Adding a Tenant and Authorizing Resources</a></p>
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